Phillip Island: Stone Brothers Racing preview

INTERESTING POINTS
1: There are six drivers who can win the Championship going
into the last round, the most since five remained in the hunt
in 1999. Caltex Racing's Russell Ingall currently leads this
year's championship on 1754 points from...

INTERESTING POINTS

1: There are six drivers who can win the Championship going
into the last round, the most since five remained in the hunt
in 1999. Caltex Racing's Russell Ingall currently leads this
year's championship on 1754 points from Craig Lowndes
(1705), Marcos Ambrose (1688), Todd Kelly (1632) and Mark
Skaife (1622).

2: Stone Brothers Racing goes to Phillip Island with the
Team's Championship sewn up. With 3543 points to Holden
Racing Team's 3119, they have a lead of 424 and as there are
only 378 points available they cannot be beaten.

3: Caltex Racing's Russell Ingall is chasing his first V8
Supercar Championship title after being runner-up four times.
Including last year to his SBR teammate Marcos Ambrose.

4: The event is the last, for the time being at least,
Championship round for Marcos Ambrose and it is fitting that
it will end where it all began. He made his Championship
debut at Phillip Island back in 2001 in what was only his
third race in a Touring Car. In his 64 starts to date he has
been on Pole position 18 times and on the front row a total
of 29 times (45.3%) and has had 14 round wins, eight second
places and seven thirds for a total of 29 podiums (45.3%). He
has managed at least one round win in each of the seasons he
has competed and is the only driver to have managed that in
the history of the Series. He will head to the US next month
to prepare for a career in NASCAR.

RUSSELL INGALL -- CALTEX RACING

MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT
Beating Craig Lowndes there in the wet in a VS Commodore in
1997 was a great day. This is a pretty tough place to win at
and when you do, you tend to enjoy it.

THOUGHTS ON PHILLIP ISLAND
Even though I have done a lot of laps around there I have had
mixed results. It is one of the circuits where if the car is
not right you are in for the biggest weekend of your life. It
is certainly a place with big potential for a major accident
if you get it wrong. I think Jason Bargwanna holds the record
for one of the most spectacular accident there after 2002.

MARCOS AMBROSE -- PIRTEK RACING
One of my favourite circuits, Phillip Island is fast and
flowing and is one of the few tracks where the car actually
feels suited to the circuit. We can use all our power and
momentum, although the lack of gravel traps makes it a little
daunting. One of the few tracks where it takes time to build
your confidence to go as fast as possible. You need to take
your time every time you go there.

MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT
I had a steering column snap going into turn one in a Formula
Ford race in 1996. It was on the warm-up lap, thankfully it
was not in the race. I managed to get it back to the pits,
because it was hanging on by a thread, but I had to turn the
wheel three times to get the wheels to move at all. As I got
back to the pits the wheel snapped off completely in my
hands. I guess you could say that was one of my luckiest days
in racing. Jason Bright running me off the circuit in the wet
there a couple of years ago was also an interesting
experience